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Corners of love and death: probing a modern obsession

Corners of love and death: probing a modern obsession
Corners of love and death: probing a modern obsession
The first attempt to map the 'corner cult' of the long nineteenth century in literature, architecture, furniture and art. The corner was a marginal zone where real life took place, for better and for worse ('dark corners'). Emile Zola defined the work of art as a 'corner of nature seen through a temperament'.
98-123
Peter Lang
Hall, James
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Grøn, Helene
Østermark-Johansen, Lene
de Rijke, Viktoria
Hall, James
48dd240e-f874-4d3a-9c4a-17464d5d14c6
Grøn, Helene
Østermark-Johansen, Lene
de Rijke, Viktoria

Hall, James (2025) Corners of love and death: probing a modern obsession. In, Grøn, Helene, Østermark-Johansen, Lene and de Rijke, Viktoria (eds.) Where Love Happens: Changing Social Practices of Love in the Long Nineteenth Century. (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts, Volume 51) Germany. Peter Lang, pp. 98-123. (doi:10.3726/b21993).

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The first attempt to map the 'corner cult' of the long nineteenth century in literature, architecture, furniture and art. The corner was a marginal zone where real life took place, for better and for worse ('dark corners'). Emile Zola defined the work of art as a 'corner of nature seen through a temperament'.

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Published date: 1 June 2025

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Local EPrints ID: 511347
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Date deposited: 12 May 2026 16:53
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Author: James Hall
Editor: Helene Grøn
Editor: Lene Østermark-Johansen
Editor: Viktoria de Rijke

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